The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-02
Points About New York Millionaires.
From. the PHILADELPHIA Press

From the Philadelphia Press
Mr.. Gould talks softly and smoothly His
speech is feline; he purrs what he has to
say. Mr. Sage talks like a man with some
thing holding back his words guardedly, a
word or two at a time and with hesitation
over every word He has the conversational
mannerism of bell-punch or of one of
those machines that ring only when check
is pulled from them. Mr.. Field is a ready
and willing speaker. What he has to say
has jolly ring to it and comes out loud and
clear and hearty Mr. Dillon is a charming
talker-if a man is ever charming. His
voice Is melodious like a woman's and
speech with him is what silence is with
others-golden. Mr. Cornell's talking is
cold, lacking that quality of heart" or
sympathy on whatever it is that warns the
voice.
This luncheon must appear like a great
game to these men and they can not help
but be interested in watching each other
and themselves. for though united SO far as
Western Union interests are concerned,
they are decidedly for themselves individu-
ally in almost all other matters. Mr. Gould
has no confidant except his son George. Mr..
Sage has none at all, not even his brother
in-law who manages his office, but he is
fond of going to Mr.. Gould for advice and
of following it after he gets it, There is
not anything much more peculiar in town
than the attitude of Mr.. Russell towards
Mr.. Gould Mr.. Sage is a tall big man and
Mr.. Gould is short and very spare. He has
to look up at Sage like a child before a
lamp-post wheu they are together, and Mr..
Sage Is at least fifteen years Goulds senior
yet Sage leans on Gould in business when
ever he is in the least worried OF in need of
counsel. The only times when Mr. Gould
has any difficulty in handling Mr.. Sage are
when Mr.. Field is concerned. To speak
wholly within bounds, Field and Sage are
not drawn to one another.
Mr.. Sage is believed to have more ready
money than any other man in the party
more, even, than Mr.. Gould. He can com
mand about S25, 000, 600 in cash in half an
hour during business hours. His aim and
hobby are to hold cash III preference to all
other forms of property. The only time he
was ever known to 'squeal," as they say
in the street, was in 1894, when the bottom
fell out of the market and he had all his
puts showed at him. He locked himself
in his room where no one could get at him
but the brokers burst in the transom over
his door and flung the unwelcome paper in
through it, thus making what is called "a
delivery" 1t is understood that Mr. Gould
then told him that the only thing to do was
to square up. 1t cost him $1,000, 900 to
do it.
Mr.. Field and Mr.. Cornell, who are the
''poor men" of the party, both live in far
better style than Mr.. Sage He lives very
plainly in his modestly appointed home on
Fifth avenue. He and his wife are of one
mind and taste in this respect and there are
no children to gainsay them Mrs. Sage is
distinguished for her interest and benevo-
lence toward hospital work Mr.. Sage
takes his keenest pleasure in riding and the
ownership of horses, but he never buys a
horse outright. He follows the custom of
country horsemen and of his own rustic
youth and Swaps" or, trades for every
horse he gets. The earmarks of his country
origin hang to him as to very few men in
this city, though the town is full of men
with the same general history, for few of
the leaders in any walk of life here were not
country boys or countrymen before thew
came here. But Mr.. Sage looks like a
countryman still-and like peculiarly old
fashioned one-with his stiff and angular
figure, his deep-furrowed face and his old
time beard, growing under his chin and
jowl. The Others are all from the farm or
village-Dillon, Gould, Field and Cornell
but what is called the polish of the city
hides the fact as it does in most men who
succeed here. Mr.. Sage wants to appear
we'll before the public and is particularly
sensitive to newspaper criticism but for
that matter so is JAY Gould-as sensitive as
a child-and so is Mr. Field: in short that is
a popularity with moneyed men very
moneyed men at any rate), they get the
main trait of capital itself, which is sensi-
tiveneSs-as if they had gold in their veins
instead of blood